From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <9f3897940607240646t46f2e446qbe5f569ac23313a6@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 15:46:34 +0200 From: "=?UTF-8?Q?Pawe=C5=82_Lasek?=" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 installation invading the other partitions? In-Reply-To: <20060724002234.GE1836@XTL.antioffline.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <44BE9BC7.9050302@gmail.com> <14989d6e0607210443n42fbffd6v7c72ccb2cc5e8da8@mail.gmail.com> <45219fb00607210451l6cfba555w6a764d30fe4415eb@mail.gmail.com> <20060724002234.GE1836@XTL.antioffline.net> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 880011e6-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 7/24/06, Harri Haataja wrote: > I've taken damage on reiserfs and found out that there wasn't really > much anything in a way of recovery tools or diagnostics. About > everything anything managed to say that the fs is dead. XFS is still the > only system that I've had nearly guaranteed data loss (and not much sign > of when or where until you find the blank files) if anything goes wrong > with a fs in use. Never on Irix, though. There it always worked > flawlessly despite equal randomness in power status and hardware faults > etc. > At the moment (well, that means the last few years; installations aren't > that frequent) I'm sticking to ext3 on any Linux hosts I may be looking > after. I only wonder since I've _never_ had data loss with XFS while I managed to destroy around 40% of data by shutting down power to ReiserFS :-) -- Paul Lasek